§ MR. DELANYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the members of the Royal Irish Constabulary employed in protection duty upon a farm in the occupation of Robert Owen, at Kilbride, near Tullamore, have been engaged in husbandry operations upon the farm; and will he state whether the occupier remunerates them for their labour, and whether the cost of those policemen is charged to the local rates.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) I am informed that there is no foundation for the statement in the first part of the Question. The cost of the police employed in protecting Robert Owen is defrayed from the Constabulary Vote.